What I learned from contributing to open source

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   Vishnu Ks
   W-I-L-F-C-T-O-S
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   Zulip GitHub Campus Experts
   

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   Phase #1
   

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   #Try To Commit Every Day
   

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   My GitHub In 2014
   

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   My GitHub In 2015
   

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   Put all your code On GitHub
   

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   Put all your code on github
   ● Topcoder/Codeforces problems you solved
   ● Semester projects
   ● Personal projects
   ● List of books you read
   ● dotfiles
   ● research paper
   

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   Work On A Side
   Project
   

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    Phase 2
    

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    If you are thinking about contributing,
    you are good enough. Challenge
    yourself and fight your impostor
    syndrome
    

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    Most projects have specific label for
    issues that are suited for beginners.
    Zulip has bit-size issues.
    

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    ● http://up-for-grabs.net
    ● http://issuehub.io
    ● http://www.firsttimersonly.com
    ● http://yourfirstpr.github.io
    ● https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
    ● http://docsdoctor.org
    ● http://PullRequestRoulette.com
    ● http://24pullrequests.com
    Issues to Get Started for Beginners
    

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    Setting Up The
    Development
    Environment Is The
    Hard Part Most of
    The Time
    

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    ● Choose An Issue and Spend
    One or Two Day on It.
    ● Don’t give up.
    ● Life is much simpler after you
    solve complete first issue.
    

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    One does not try
    to read the
    entire code base
    

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    The number of
    lines in Zulip is
    4,85,395
    

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    grep -rnw “key word” .
    

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    Don’t know what a line of code does?
    > git log -S “line of code”
    

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    Learn from Git History of a File
    

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    Brandon Keepers, GitHub
    

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    Open Source is the
    ultimate referral
    Chris Dibona, Google
    

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    So, which project
    are you going to
    contribute to?
    

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    Special
    Thanks To
    @bkeepers
    and
    @joenash
    GitHub
    

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    Slide On
    https://github.com/hackerkid/talks
    

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